drawing
- Museum number
- 1902,0514.320
- Description
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Study of trees in a clearing; one central trunk rising in front of a bank of foliage, the top of another further l; two figures with horses left of centre. c.1803
Graphite on cream paper
- Production date
- 1803 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 357 millimetres (irreg)
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Width: 257 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For curatorial comment on the function of tree studies within Cotman’s teaching practice, and on the subsequent compilation of collections of tree studies, see 1902,0514.319. For curatorial comment on the importance of tree studies to his artistic development during his tours of Yorkshire 1803-5 see 1902,0514.295 and 313.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Acquisition notes
- Included in a folio of forty-six drawings of trees purchased by Reeve from J.J.Cotman in 1864 (1902,0514.291-335)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1902,0514.320